Beginnings
The end of THIS conflict marked the beginning of Reconstruction.
What is the Civil War?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
He was president of the United States during the Civil War and sought for peaceful reunification between the North and South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was a government agency created to provide food, education, medical care, jobs, and legal assistance to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These laws were passed to restrict the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This side was VICTORIOUS (won) the Civil War.
What is the Union/North?
This amendment grants citizenship to ALL people born in the United States and grants equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
He was the General of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. His surrender to Union forces marked the effective end of the fighting and began the nation's transition into Reconstruction.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This group used violence and intimidation to terrorize African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This exempted voters from literacy tests and poll taxes if their grandfather was eligible to vote.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
One month after the Civil War ended, this president was assassinated.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment grants ALL men the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
He Became president after Lincoln's assassination and disagreed with Congress over how the South should be rebuilt. His presidency was marked by major political conflict.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These were established to educate African Americans and prepare future leaders.
What are Black Colleges?
This required citizens to PAY ($) before they were able to vote.
What is a Poll Tax?
This side was DEFEATED (lost) the Civil War
What is the Confederacy/South?
This bill was introduced by Abraham Lincoln and involved a lenient approach to reunification.
What is the 10% Plan?
He was one of the first African Americans elected to high national office during Reconstruction, demonstrating the political changes taking place after the Civil War.
Who is Hiram Revels?
These were people who moved from the North to the South with the intent of making money in a depressed southern economy.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
This required citizens to prove that they could READ and WRITE before they could vote.
What is a Literacy Test?
This group of people wanted to PUNISH the South for seceding from the Union.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This bill sought to PUNISH the South and required at least 50% of southern voters to pledge loyalty to the Union before rejoining.
He was a formerly enslaved abolitionist, writer, and speaker who continued working to expand civil rights and equal opportunities for African Americans after the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This branch of government decided the Election of 1876.
What is the Legislative Branch/Congress?
This agreement officially ended Reconstruction by determining that Rutherford B. Hayes would become president, but the US had to remove troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?